Other News

When Ricky Hamilton isn’t busy running his DIY label Quality Time Records, the Cleveland-based musician is making noise as Ricky Hell–with a little help from The Voidboys. With a name riffing off of Richard Hell‘s work with the Voidoids, Hamilton’s moniker tribute also won’t disappoint fans of the original punk outfit. On their 2017 LP Hell Is Real, the band’s […]

Monocorpse returns to Gooiland Elektro this month with a limited edition 12″ called The Comfort Of Strangers. This will be the Dutch producer’s third EP outing for the label, and it follows 2016’s Cease To Exist 12″, which featured addresses affiliated with the Manson family for song titles. As the project’s moniker would suggest, this music’s gone to the dark […]

Despite the moniker, Yakamoto Kotzuga is an Italian producer and sound artist who works between London, Milan, and Venice. While being commissioned in 2016 by the Venice Biennale to collaborate with visual artist Furio Ganz, the young musician was inspired to begin work on the follow-up to his 2015 LP Usually Nowhere. The artist’s sophomore release, Slowly Fading is due […]

The Italian electronic label Infidel Bodies returns this coming February with Viktor Kalima‘s limited edition cassette release Club Muscle. The Finnish producer, real name Mikko Virtala, has also worked under the monikers Noir Hour and SEXFORSELFHELP, as well as in the duos CSD and New Sincerity with the musicians Olof Cotard and Eero Pulkkinen, respectively. Kalima had a track on […]

Keyboardist/pianist Thollem McDonas recently posted to Bandcamp nine compilation albums featuring selections from his solo piano and electronic work, as well as in various ensembles including duos, trios, and quartets with over a hundred different collaborators. Collecting together tracks from his nearly 60 album releases, among the collection you will also find a Best Of compilation dedicated to his efforts […]

Seattle rocker Mario Barbetta‘s Deer Venom project kicks off the year with a killer new 4-song EP up now on Bandcamp. Last January we previewed the track “Not Today.” Though a self-recorded basement demo at the time, put together with fellow musicians bassist/vocalist Brian Salvage and drummer Radford Mason, the cut’s raucous energy was still more than evident. This past […]

Ex-Literature frontman Nate Cardaci has a new band called Très Oui, and on February 9th they will release their Poised To Flourish LP via Shrimper/Revolver Records. Literature’s expansive pop often occupied rarefied air, and on a record like the group’s 2014 Slumberland release Chorus, there was an ease and elegance that made things sound like a hair was rarely out […]